Safety-pocket.



No. 645,882. Patented Mar. 20, I900. L. ALMULY.

SAFETY POCKET.

(Application fllgd July 13, 1899.)

(No Model.)

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SAFETY-POCKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 645,882, dated March 20, 1900. Application filed July 13,1899. Serial No. 723 $721. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LAZARUS ALMULY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Utica, in the county of Oneida and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Safety-Pockets, of which the following is a specification.

This'invention relates to a safety-pocket readily constructed and which can be used as an ordinary pocket, if desired, the invention residing in the novel features of construction set forth in the following specification and claim-and illustrated in the annexed drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of a pocket partly torn away. Fig. 2 is a section along line a: 00, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 shows a partition.

The invention consists in providing an ordinary pocket with the inner strip or partition 1. This strip 1 is placed between the body portion 2 and the outer portion 3 of the pocket, and it is sewed to the pocket at the bottom and sides, its top being left loose or free. Near its top edge the inner strip is provided with one or more openings or eyelets 4:. Through these eyelets is passed the snaphook end of watch-chain 5, to which is then attached watch 6, the latter resting in the pocket. An attempt to withdraw the watch by tugging or pulling on the chain will be baffled, as the chain being entwined about the inner strip or passing through one or more eyelets will resist such pull, and the owner is easily warned.

To see the time or examine the watch, the latter can be Withdrawn from the pocket, as the chain being of sufficient length will readily pass through the various eyelets when being pulled.

The invention is of course applicable to any pocket where a chain is inserted, as in vest or trousers pockets or elsewhere, and the holes or openings in the' inner strip or partition are suitably reinforced.

The invention is serviceable not only on watch chains or ribbons, but also other chains or flexible connections, as key-chains. In the inside pocket of a coat, 'for example, such persons as car-conductors can use the attachment for preventing loss of keys, whistles, and the like having chain or flexible attachment.

The partition 1 is practically made of the pocket-lining material known as pocketing, which is strong and flexible and can be placed in any pocket, coat, vest, or trousers, either fob or hip pocket, or in outing shirts or garments, the pocket being made of any suitable kind of goods. The eyelets 4 can be made larger or smaller, as desired, and can be metallic or stitched as a buttonhole, or, if required, reinforced by a metallic diaphragm. In fact, any suitable ring or eye attachment which allows a chain or flexible connection to pass through will answer. The partition being placed between the parts forming the pocket proper and the parts being then sewed or secured together by one set of stitches, the partition is secured at its bottomand'sides in a simple and effective manner. The partition after completion makes a wall or division so as to form practically a double pocket.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A garment having a pocket provided with a partition, secured at its sides and bottom and free at its top, forming two compartments both of which are on the same side of the body of the garment, the said partition being provided with a plurality of openings through which a flexible connection such as a chain or ribbon is interwoven, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.v

LAZARUS 'ALMULY. Witnesses:

GEORGE BELTZ, J12, FABIAN RANDEL. 

